I had the same issue when testing it, my server wasn’t powerful enough to run it. Elasticsearch seems to be the main culprit since its pretty heavy on both CPU and RAM, and that’s an intentional choice according to the developer: https://docs.tubearchivist.com/faq/#why-elasticsearch
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Don't have the same problems as yours. My only issue with TA is that it's very picky about the ES and Redis version, so currently I pin them to a specific build. I do worry that one day TA will be updated so much that it won't support older builds of ES and Redis and my whole thing may break.
But when it works, it works perfectly, giving Jellyfin all the metadata to display them neatly (with the TA plugin of course).
You guys are giving me hope, I just have no idea where to begin. Lol.
I run TA with success since many months. It's fast and responsive, so I guess it's an issue with your setup?
The metadata bridge to jellyfin alfo works pretty nice, I have no complaints...
You can check my notes at https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Atubearchivist
But be advised I am on rootless podman with docker compose
Okay, your notes have definitely helped a bit. I compared your compose file against mine and removed the HOST_UID, HOST_GID, and the healthcheck sections from the default file. Its still taking an abnormal amount of time to boot up and login, but the container isn't completely throttling my system anymore. I suspect the healthcheck was the culprit. A step in the right direction though, thank you!
I removed health checks because o think they don't work properly with podman how I use it, but I might be wrong.
Anyway, glad it helped! That's the spirit why I wrote it.
I'll take a look at that when I get home, thank you. That gives me hope. I thought I was going to have to abandon it with how awful it was running. Fingers crossed.
How did you set them up with Plex?
I tried TubeArchivist a while back but as I recall it was much more about archiving entire channels and didn't have great customization like "Only keep latest two episodes". It might have changed since then.
Its been a minute since I've used Plex so I don't remember the exact specifications, but I set up a separate library in Plex and directed it to my YouTube folder where I had everything pre-organized, and then I selected the option in Plex that was something like "show folders," which organized the Plex library the way I had the directory organized. It wasn't perfect because I had to set up everything manually, but all I wanted was to be able to watch my YouTube videos from anywhere in the house, and for that it was perfect.
I've used it for a few years, without any of those problems.